Put forth by XicanoPwr
Jul
19
Viva Las Vegas! Yes folks, I will be heading to Las Vegas for this years Netroots. I will be on a panel discussing immigration enforcement and detention issues. The panel is:
Crimmigration Under Obama: Pushing Back Against the “Enforcement-only” Immigration Regime
Description: Immigration enforcement under the Obama administration has continued almost unchanged from the “enforcement-only” regime [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Mar
18
Breakthrough, a New York-based nonprofit international human rights organization, recently launched their video game, ICED! (I Can End Deportation), that aims to educate people on current immigration policies, and is targeted to a younger demographic.
Breakthrough is not new to the immigration game. Last summer, I wrote about the deportation of Anslem Ifill, an immigrant [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
29
It’s Monday, and that means it’s once again time for the Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up. This week’s round-up is complied by Vince from Capitol Annex.
Refinish69 from Doing My Part For The Left is outraged with certain politicians in Fort Worth, Texas. Homophobia Rears Its Nasty Head in Fort Worth City Council Race tells who [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Oct
26
On Wednesday the Senate rejected the bill, the DREAM Act (S 2205), that would have provided a pathway to obtain permanent residency to children of undocumented immigrants – on the conditions that they seek a college education or enlist in the military. The legislation would have also made them eligible for federal student-loan and work-study [...]
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Put forth by XicanoPwr
Sep
09
Increasing globalization has stimulated an unprecedented flow of immigrants. Integrating immigrants and the subsequent generations into the receiving society is a primary challenge of globalization; failing to do so, however, can have long term social implications.
As I mentioned before, this past Labor Day weekend I attended another demonstration against this country’s use of the [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
